Gorgon

The Syrian govt is a bit of a joke, considering the amount of leverage wielded by Hezbollah. However, going in and assassinating people on foreign soil, that's the kinda thing you would expect of Israel, not the US.

There is no level system, instead you find upgrade canisters a la Deus Ex and upgrade your suits or your weapons, the weapons all have special abilities, overall it's much the same effect as a leveling system, albeit more primitive. There's no jumping except in zero grav where you get to walk on the walls, which is pretty cool. Otherwise you get the same feeling of wishing you could do more with the environment as in the witcher. There is no quicksave, but save stations, and a ATMs where you buy upgrades a la System Shock. The baddies are like something out of a Warhammer Chaos army. If you have seen the movie Event Horizon, it captures the mood pretty well, so far not that much character interaction.

So after downloading a logitech applet for my mouse, I was able to boost the mouse speed even further, so now I can actually aim without slowdowns, it's a mite choppy though probably because it wasn't intended for actual 'real time aiming'. Now I have another problem, just the smallest touch of the mouse will turn me 180 degrees, which can be a problem when a nasty pops up and you turn your back to him.

This falls into the category of bad PC port. You can't aim properly either. I had to turn mouse sensitivity all the way up in both the mouse applet in windows and in the game, just to get it so I could look around at the turn of the wrist instead of requiring several feet of free space. The superior aiming operation of a mouse seems to have been deliberately sabotaged as well. Whenever you enter aim mode, pointing slows down so much you can either flail the mouse spastically to try to bring your gun to bear faster, or simply contend with a constant speed handicap. I realise this gap between intention and finding your aim on a console is larger, but it's not supposed to be a factor on a pc. I can't recommend this at all unless you use a controller, and it's not really the kind of game that benefits from a controller either. Well, possible maneuvering in space, I haven't gotten that far yet. What keeps me at it is the sound mixing and the atmosphere. The baddies themselves look, I dunno, a little too over the top to be scary.

First thing I've noticed is that I can't reassign movement keys to the arrow keys. FFS, I mean, I'm not an expert but how ****ing hard can it be to implement proper remapping. I can't stand WASD, it's just a thing I've always suffered from. Enter, Arrow keys, Numerical keyboard, can only be mapped to certain seemingly arbitrary functions, The rest it seems must me either letters, numbers or F-keys. You can move with F1 through 10, but not the arrow keys. Just brilliant.

Ok so I bought it, at a games store chain I hate no less so I had to pay more. I'm collecting heads if it sucks donkey balls, just so you know. Installing now.

**** I dunno.

The suit looks a bit silly, everything else looks well thought out. 'Necromorphs' lols. gimme a break. Also, it's EA, that means the game is not a keeper, right, you can only use it for 3 installs or hardware changes.

So can I get a solid recommendation out of anyone. I love sci fi, I hated Doom3.

Demos cost production time, and if your game stinks it's only going to make things worse. The smoke and mirrors approach probably works better.

I think i'm going with seagate too next time around, they have a pretty solid reputation

I just know its going to suck and break my heart.

Your own fault for not having proper backup >_ Whatever is important to you can't just be on one physical drive.

Most people who get a job writing game reviews are positive. That's how they continue to get work. I'm just curious, so you prefer positive reviewers to neutral or negative ones.

I still have my old beat up 22' CRT. I got used to it I guess. Still beats any LCD for color reproduction. CRTs benefit from 32 bit color, but get this, LCDs aren't even true 16 bit, they cheat and use interpolation. Friend of mine was able to turn the firmware off his mac screen and it was plain as day how sucky they were without it. Gradients had visible borders. Prolly gonna get one anyway though, costs less in power, doesn't take up half a desk, easier on the eyes etc.

That baloney with the package being intact don't fly with danish legislation. If you have a receipt and you had to break the wrapping to get to it, they have to return it. That don't stop them from forgetting to tell you that bit of information when you take it back though. I guess there is just something fundamentally amoral and shifty about sales clarks.

It wasn't part of my curriculum, or maybe I just missed those days. Anyway it is I suppose an important cold war moment. Other than that it was over pretty fast.

I got tied of crysis somewhere in the huge spaceship, I also thought the suit controls were annoying. You can either run too slowly, or too fast for 2 seconds. You can't jump anywhere until the strength thing has recharged, real stealth would have been preferable to a magic button. etc, etc. This is another one of those you can only install 3 times games isn't it. That means bargain bin for me. Anyway I got my taste of the engine already.

No one country is going to just leave the economy to do it's thing, there are vested interests after all. The thought is utopian.

My mom told me later today that many people listened to every free Hungarian radio broadcast, when they stopped coming, people knew what had happened. I guess this was back when radio mattered.

What a wuss, going to the police with that.

That is probably what he mean, ain't it. Well, I guess it just sucks to be on the wrong side of the Iron curtain. It was decided that Hungary was in Russia's sphere of interest, this is a consensus that goes all the way back to Potsdam. Of course no one asked Hungary.

I don't know a damn thing about the Hungarian revolution, maybe you could enlighten us. Unless you mean when the Ruskies rolled their tanks in to regain control, and Nato decided it wasn't worth fighting a war over.

Didn't you used to have a half a mile of signature in painful colors.

Ohh,, well. It's a shame I think. Kotor held a promise, for however briefly, that you could have a story for grown ups set in the star wars universe.